Over in the science sub-reddit on the Reddit website (which I hate using) some people are promoting the idea that newer variants of the Covid virus could start having longer incubation period’s which could also eventually lead to greater long term deaths. However, usually longer incubation period‘s are only possible with strains of the virus that are less lethal.
The way a typical virus works is that it invades cells in your body and quickly replicates itself which damages cells in infected places like your lungs. The rapid duplication can cause massive cellular damage to the victim which can lead to death. In healthy individuals, that death may be also be assisted by an over-active immune response creating a cytokine storm which can cause death.
The typical virus doesn’t hide quietly for days, weeks or years contributing to long-term health problems that end up killing the victim. The AIDS virus was not a typical virus in that it targeted mainly the immune system, hiding in the body and then killing a person over the long term by destroying their immune system.
As a novel member of the Covid family, the Covid-19 virus should act like a severe flu or cold virus. People should feel sick, they will look sick, they will go for medical help and if they die they will die within a few days. Most people were not immune to the novel Covid-19 virus and so they got sick and we saw many medically vulnerable people die relatively quickly in days or weeks.
To assume that a new Covid virus would learn to hide like the AIDS virus, spread quietly and develop high long-term lethality is a big leap. However, early on in the pandemic, some Indian scientists did find genetic markers from the AIDS virus in the genetic code for the Covid-19 virus. Of course, that report was suppressed and discredited, correct?
So, if the Covid virus eventually starts acting like the AIDS virus, well then, people like me are going to suspect that the Covid virus was engineered in the Wuhan viral institute as a biological weapon.
But no, you normie folks should keep believing that a bat flew to Wuhan and bit a pangolin in a wet market (adjacent to a viral research lab) and that natural process created the new virus.
That belief and the experimental vaccine treatments will keep everyone safe, I’m sure.
I think it might be a spliced together virus, it has been mentioned (I can't confirm this with my lack of scientific noggin) that it has an engineered 'backbone'.
Some of the code looks like it appears as if it came from a coronavirus, some from the HIV virus (likely this would be to keep transmissibility and infection high, also the areas of the body able to be infected eg organs, blood/brain barrier)
It was also mentioned there could be sticky parcels of yeast on the outside of the virus, again for added ability to infect.
Difficult to be sure since, as you say, we would have no idea if the AIDS symptoms appeared until much later- if the virus was both we may get a usual infection from the coronavirus, but if the HIV stayed put it could cause later issues. Rather like the spike proteins.
Disclaimer: This is, of course, absolute speculation, I am not a Doctor yadda yadda...